Recent content by Heppenheimer

Allow me to play the Devil's advocate here... Is appealing to comic book fans alone enough to ensure the success of potential tent-pole movies? Not that there can't be quite a bit of cross-over between comic fans and "normies" (for lack of a better word), but from my observations, some of the...

After hearing the Hot Dog Dance song nearly every day, multiple times a day, for the past few years, I'm ready for How Far I'll Go, You're Welcome and Shiny.

That last one is big news for anyone with pre-schoolers in the house. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse has been playing on an almost constant loop in my house for the past several years. My kids had no interest at all in Mickey Mouse Funhouse (seemed designed with the sole intention of selling toys), so...

Read the room, Rian. Do like we all did as kids, play out your own Star Wars ideas with the toys. At least then, your bad ideas don't get shared with the world and become canon, like my scenario as a 7 year old that had ewoks flying x-wings.

George Lucas was always best with broad outlines and story arcs, but he needed other people to write the dialogue and direct the actors. So, a "treatment" from him could have included some good material, it would have just needed to be worked out by someone with the right talent. Which...

I rewatched it recently and it really struck me how well the cinematography captured the look and feel of being in an extremely cold environment... that kind of grey-white hue that the air takes on. And this was before digital color grading existed.

Would that have been a first with, an actor playing the same character animated and in live action?

Supposedly, they combined a few characters to streamline the story (and probably the budget too).

First impressions I've heard from sources I trust... this one looks like a winner. To quote: 'Unlike the producers of Snow White, these guys understood the assignment"

As a commander, you also don't keep your grand plan secret until the very last minute because the plot requires you to (the one third/ two thirds rule of command, for anyone who has been in the military), and you don't inspire confidence and loyalty by belittling subordinates who ask very...

I particularly liked the development of Mon Mothma in this show. She's barely even a character in any of the movies, but they took her barebones back-story and made her into one of the best and most important characters in the Star Wars universe. Part of that comes down to Genevieve O'Reilly's...

From what I understand, most of the institutional knowledge of how to do hand drawn animation is gone from the House of the Mouse. They would basically need to learn most of the trade from scratch again. Given the financial pressures Disney is under right now, I don't see that happening...

I mean... he said he really liked Andor, so it appears that perhaps he is not, in fact, "predisposed to search for any reason to dislike anything Disney puts out...". He also generally liked The Skeleton Crew, although he gave it a more tepid review. The guy goes out of his way to watch...

If anyone follows Chris Gore, he had an interesting take. He did not like the first season of Andor. He did not like the first three episodes of season II. But he's seen the rest of the season, and reports it was some of the best Star Wars content he's watched in years, even if it has a very...

BTW, just wondering, does Galaxy's Edge still have Savi's workshop? It seemed the first two times I went to Disneyland after Galaxy's Edge opened that I saw lots of people walking around with their expensive new tchotchkes. Two weeks ago when we visited, I didn't see a single lightsaber. Has...